{"id":22410,"date":"2022-06-30T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/30\/celtic-close-deals-for-3rd-and-4th-summer-signings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:00:25","slug":"celtic-close-deals-for-3rd-and-4th-summer-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/30\/celtic-close-deals-for-3rd-and-4th-summer-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic close deals for 3rd and 4th summer signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Scottish heavyweights Celtic have, on Thursday, continued to step up the club\u2019s ongoing rebuilding effort under the watch of Ange Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p>The summer, to date, has seen a trio of arrivals confirmed on the green half of the Glasgow divide.<\/p>\n<p>First up came confirmation of Cameron Carter-Vickers\u2019 loan switch from Tottenham Hotspur being made altogether deservedly permanent, before reinforcements between the posts were too forthcoming in the form of Benjamin Siegrist.<\/p>\n<p>And this set the stage for a 3rd addition to the Bhoys\u2019 ranks being confirmed on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The latest player to have opted to take his talents to Celtic with a view to the 2022\/23 campaign? Alexandro Bernabei.<\/p>\n<p>As per a series of announcements across the club\u2019s social media platforms, highly-regarded left-back Bernabei has been secured from Argentine outfit Lanus for a fee in the region of \u00a33.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old, who has put pen to paper on a five-year contract, had the following to say on the back of his signing being made official:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s a club that\u2019s used to championships and that\u2019s the main reason why I\u2019ve come to Celtic.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018The first thought I had when I heard about interest was that I was very hopeful it was something that going to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I was really looking forward to playing for Celtic. I didn\u2019t need to speak to anyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018The transfer was going to happen and I\u2019d already made up my mind that was I going to come, regardless.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">??? Introducing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CelticFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CelticFC<\/a>\u2018s new number 25!<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Argentinian Celt on Twitter ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bernabei25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bernabei25<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BernaBhoy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BernaBhoy<\/a> ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BiQyqOeiqH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BiQyqOeiqH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticFC\/status\/1542444371810844673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The transfer team at Celtic Park, though, are not done there, it would seem.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Daily Mail, amongst other sources, the Scottish champions are also set to announce a permanent deal for fan favourite Jota imminently.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese attacker Jota impressed whilst on loan in Glasgow this past season, on his way to a head-turning 13 goals and 14 assists across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, it should come as little surprise to hear of Celtic\u2019s plans to take up their option to buy the 23-year-old upon the international transfer market swinging open in the coming hours.<\/p>\n<p>Jota is expected to set the Hoops back a sum of \u00a36.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Celtic in \u00a310m double swoop for Argentine left-back Alexandro Bernabei and Portuguese winger Jota | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgowan_stephen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mcgowan_stephen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mwHgKMQ0TP\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/mwHgKMQ0TP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport\/status\/1542606451318947840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/newcastle-and-leeds-among-trio-of-clubs-chasing-former-tottenham-prospect-this-summer\/\">Newcastle and Leeds among trio of clubs chasing former Tottenham prospect this summer<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/west-ham-go-cold-on-danjuma-to-turn-attentions-towards-alternative-targets\/\">West Ham \u2018go cold\u2019 on Danjuma to turn attentions towards alternative targets<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish heavyweights Celtic have, on Thursday, continued to step up the club\u2019s ongoing rebuilding effort under the watch of Ange Postecoglou. The summer, to date, has seen a trio of arrivals confirmed on the green half of the Glasgow divide. First up came confirmation of Cameron Carter-Vickers\u2019 loan switch from Tottenham Hotspur being made altogether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-22410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}